Research support – collaboration with Campo Arqueológico and the Universities of Évora and Frankfurt The Museu de Mértola Cláudio Torres supported the activities carried out as part of the partnership between the Campo Arqueológico de Mértola, the University of Évora’s History Department and the Institute or Archaeological Science – Dept. of Near Eastern Archaeology da… Ler mais Research support – collaboration with Campo Arqueológico and the Universities of Évora and Frankfurt

Remembering Serrão Martins Mina de S. Domingos and Mértola – 16 to 25 March 2024 As part of the Remembering Serrão Martins initiative, we must not forget his innovative territorial development vision, combined with that of Cláudio Torres. They both realised that combining the potential of heritage with excellent research and dissemination would contribute to… Ler mais Remembering Serrão Martins – Mina de S. Domingos and Mértola – 16 to 25 March 2024

6th Meeting of the Baixo Alentejo Museum Network ‘We understand each other by talking! Oral expression as memory and heritage Centro Interpretativo do Barranquenho – Barrancos – 12 March 2024 The 6th Meeting of the Baixo Alentejo Museum Network was held on 12 March 2024 in Vila de Barrancos, organised in partnership with the Barrancos… Ler mais 6th Meeting of the Baixo Alentejo Museum Network

International Seminar from Sarq to Garb: Funerary spaces, society and urbanism in al-Andalus /Maqbara II) – 16 to 18 May 2024 – Submission of papers and posters Maqbara II is the second major international event organised by the R&D project ‘Maqbara. Arabisation, Islamisation and Resistance through Cemetery Spaces in South-Eastern al-Andalus‘ (PID2020-112188GB-100) with the collaboration… Ler mais International Seminar from Sarq to Garb: Funerary spaces, society and urbanism in al-Andalus /Maqbara II)

Workshop on the conservation and restoration of ceramic objects – 5 to 9 February 2024 The Workshop on the Conservation and Restoration of Ceramic Objects was held from 5 to 9 February 2024 at the Technical and Administrative Area of the Cláudio Torres Mértola Museum, for undergraduate, master’s and PhD students in Archaeology at the… Ler mais Workshop on the conservation and restoration of ceramic objects

Conference at the National Archaeological Museum in Spain: ‘IACAM: Investigating cultural transitions and changes in the rural world of the Portuguese Alentejo’ It was presented on 23 January 2024, in the Conference Room of the National Archaeological Museum of Spain, in Madrid, by the scientific directors of the IACAM Project (Archaeological Intervention at Cercas das… Ler mais Conference at the National Archaeological Museum in Spain

Convento dos Capuchos/Almada, 11 and 12 January 2024 The Archaeology, Heritage and Local Authorities meeting, organised by the CHAM of the Nova University of Lisbon, the City Council of Almada and the Almada Museum, was held in Almada on 11 and 12 January. This Meeting is based on the assumption that ‘one of the vectors… Ler mais Archaeology, Heritage and Local Authorities Meeting

Alexandre Bento is a researcher doing a PhD at the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM) of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He carried out a study of various materials from the collection of Mértola Museum between 16 and 20 October 2023, at the facilities of the museum`s… Ler mais Alexandre Bento is a researcher doing a PhD at the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM)

Zélie Blampain, Master’s student in Museology at the University of Liège (Belgium), did an internship at the Mértola Museum – Cláudio Torres from 12 October to 15 December 2023, and describes this period in the text below, which she calls ‘Internship in Mértola – an elusive spirit’.: ‘I arrived in Mértola under a sun that… Ler mais Zélie Blampain, Master’s student in Museology at the University of Liège (Belgium)